Juliana Mormont is the only girl at the Night's Watch and has always been somewhat of an outsider but her life changes drastically as she finds herself on the run along with a lady disguised as a boy, a smith who doesn't know he's the King's bastard...
"So how do you do what you do?" Juliana asked Daegal.
The boy shrugged, "It's just normal for my kind I guess."
"Your kind?"
"Angvlaxar. We're shapeshifters," he explained.
"So, you all turn into dragons?" Gendry asked from behind them.
"The men, yes. Our women can't shift but their human form is usually stronger than ours. My mother likes to say it's the gods' way of creating balance since woman are also usually the ones in power."
*****
They continued their march through the snow until they found a group of wights marching with a White Walker.
Quickly coming up with a plan, Jon lit a small fire in the path the wights had to take while the rest of the company hid in different places around the fire.
By the time the White Walker arrived with his troop, Jon was also safely hidden and they watched as the enemy stopped to inspect the fire.
Then, all at once, they ambushed the Wights from the sides, Juliana and Gendry fighting side-by-side.
Gendry was swinging his hammer and crushing in skulls (though that didn't stop their bodies from coming closer) while Juliana was kicking in legs and cutting through rotting flesh and muscles with her daggers.
From the corner of her eye, Juliana saw her brother being choked by a wight so she fought her way towards him but before she could reach him, most of the dead bodies fell to the ground in pieces.
She turned around and saw Jon stand over a pile of crushed up pieces of ice. He had destroyed the White Walker.
One of the wights had been left undestroyed and it was now snarling and screeching at them as they encircled it.
Tormund threw away his battle axe and punched the dead man in the face, making it fall to the ground. Quickly, Sandor jumped onto it, keeping it down with his massive body.
The screeching of the wight echoed through the vale they were in and as Sandor tried to silence it by putting his gloved hand over the mouth of the thing, he accidentally ripped off the Weight's face.
Shaking his hand in disgust, he quickly covered the face of the wight again to muffle the load noise but it seemed as if it had already been heard as the rumbling of running footsteps came closer.
"Run back to Eastwatch," Jon told Juliana, "Get a raven to Daenerys, tell her what's happened."
"I can't leave you guys."
"You're the fastest. Go, now!"
Juliana turned to Gendry who had listened to their words.
"If you die out here, I'm going to kill you," she gave him a quick kiss before turning and running as if the devil himself was after her.
*****
Juliana ran through the snow, leaving her cloak to flutter away in the wind so that she may run faster. The icy air was biting at her face, making her eyes tear and her nose grow cold but she kept running.
She ran all the way to the Eastwatch and only stopped as she was at the gate of the tunnel that would lead her through the wall.
"Raven...Daenerys...Help," she panted to the first man she saw.
She didn't know the man but he lead her to where the Ravens were and gave her a scroll of parchment along with some ink and a quill to write.
As she finished the quick letter, she sent it off to Dragonstone and hoped the Queen would receive it before it was too late.
*****
The rest of the group arrived back the following day, all but Jon Snow.
As Juliana saw Gendry, she couldn't help but fling her arms around his neck, pulling him into a kiss.
"You're back," she whispered as she pressed her forehead to his.
"A very beautiful woman threatened to kill me if I didn't return."
Juliana smiled before she reclaimed his lips with hers.
*****
Gendry and Juliana watched as Daenerys Stormborn took off with her fleet to sail to King's Landing and convince Cersei Lannister to form a transient alliance against the White Walkers and the wights that waited for them north of the Wall.
They sailed to save them all but Gendry and Juliana were of little use to them as neither of them had a political value that the others knew of.
So, the couple stayed at Dragonstone to wait for the answer of the Mother of Madness.
ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ'ꜱ ɴᴏᴛᴇ
This is where the season ends for Gendry and Juliana and so does this book.
There will be more books that connect to this, including one with Daegal.
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